Article
Comparison of genotyping methods by application to Salmonella livingstone strains associated with an outbreak of human salmonellosis.
International journal of food microbiology - 25 Sept 2005
Eriksson John, Löfström Charlotta, Aspán Anna, Gunnarsson Anders, Karlsson Ingela, Borch Elisabeth, de Jong Birgitta, Rådström Peter
Abstract excerpt
During 2000 and 2001, an outbreak of human salmonellosis occurred in Sweden and Norway, caused by Salmonella livingstone. In this study, the genotypic differences between three strains obtained from food sources during the outbreak, two human strains and 27 more or less unrelated strains were analysed, using the three methods; automated ribotyping, pulsed field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) and randomly amplified...
Topics
- Animal Feed
- Animals
- Cluster Analysis
- Disease Outbreaks
- Electrophoresis, Gel, Pulsed-Field
- Food Contamination
- Genotype
- Humans
- Norway
- Random Amplified Polymorphic DNA Technique
